Before another day has passed I shall have slain him; and now I tell you and your kinsmen that I renounce all fealty to you.
When you answer Captain Peyton, let the commission be made out in the name of Nuala O'Neill--and take my fealty for what is left to me of life, Nuala.
The more he saw of her, the more clearly he read her heart and the more he gave her deeper fealty than had passed his lips in the oath of service.
If you held it, there would be no peace between us, unless you gavefealty to me, which I see plainly you will not do.
If you had been a man, Nuala, you had never had fealty from me.
But not until these things have been done, for Brian O'Neill will give fealty to none--no, not even to the Bird Daughter herself.
When your messenger came to me, I read cunning in his face, and took it for a trap set by the Dark Master; but now that I have seen you and Cathbarr of the Ax, I will take fealty from you if you wish to serve me.
But since you withdrew your fealty to me, I had to find another servant!
This I do because it is not meet that The O'Neill should give fealty to any, Lady Nuala.
I will give you fealty for the holding of Bertragh Castle, keeping it ever at your service, but for this alone.
Then it seems that I am held in a cleft stick," smiled Brian easily, "since I will give fealty to none save the king, or Parliament.
In vain the Longobards had already chosen and sworn fealty to another monarch; in vain they prepared for defence.
And before long the count decided to swear alliance and fealty to the Florentines, together with his dependents, all of whom, excepting the soldiery, became subject to a yearly hearth tax of twenty-six denari.
Taking refuge at Pisa, that republic granted him protection as a former vassal, equally regardless of the subsequent treaties, by which he had sworn fealty to Genoa, and of all the barbarities he had committed.
In truth, they who plighted fealty to thee, really plighted that fealty to God: the hand of God was over their hands!
Kneeling down, Harold placed his hands between those of the Duke, and repeated the solemn form, by which he acknowledged the Duke as his lord, and promised to him fealty and true service.
Many more of her nobility, many of her prelates, her magistrates, and rulers, had sworn fealty to the English king.
Our path is plain; the war-net draws Round us in vain, While, faithful to the Higher Cause, We keep our fealty to the laws Through patient pain.
Hands of want or souls in pain Have not sought my door in vain; I have kept my fealty good To the human brotherhood; Scarcely have I asked in prayer That which others might not share.
To him it was not a visit so much as a pilgrimage; his devotion to the person of his sovereign was but the embodiment of his principle of fealty towards hereditary monarchy.
It has no peculiar incidents, the tenants not being bound even to do fealty to the lords, because, as Littleton says, the prayers and other divine services of the tenants are better for the lords than any doing of fealty.
The tenure of an estate in copyholds involves an oath of fealty from the tenant, and together also with suit to the customary court of the manor.
He indeed owedfealty to the King, but only for the temporalities of his See.
They indeed owned their allegiance to the Pope, as the supreme head of the Church, but their fealty was becoming a mockery.
All these dukes and barons, however, acknowledged the King of France as their liege lord; yet he was not richer or more powerful than some of the dukes who swore fealty to him.
The powers of the State were the nobles, warlike and ignorant, rapidly becoming feudal barons, acknowledging only a nominal fealty to the Crown.
This decree was especially aimed against the Emperor of Germany, to whom, as liege lord, the Pope himself owed fealty and obedience.
Accordingly he placed his hand upon the hilt of his new master's drawn sword, as if about to swear fealty to him: but instead of swearing, he ran him through.
And note, that Wiggo did not swear the oath of fealty to the murderer of his master Rolf: he merely put himself in the posture to do so, and then, instead, ran the tyrant through forthwith.
It is an honor either to be offered such fealtyor to have it accepted.
Theoretically, anyone may swear such fealty to anyone, but in practice it is almost exclusively warriors swearing to Warleaders or other high-status warriors.
A Terran woman who swore personalfealty to Richard Jason.
In 2574, he swore personal fealtyto Ranger Corina Losinj.
She meant to leave no obligation of wifely fealty unfulfilled.
Any jar, as it were, in the steadfast vibrations of his fealty sent to the heart of this most unswerving loyalist a strange, acute dismay.
We have sworn fealty to each other, and the badge of our love is in your caps.
Generally peace tells for righteousness; but if there is conflict between the two, then our fealty is due-first to the cause of righteousness.
They held the Province directly of the kings of England, in free and common socage, by fealty only, yielding therefor two Indian arrows, on the Tuesday of Easter week, to the King at the Castle of Windsor.
The first Viceroy whom Philip nominated, Dom Francisco Mascarenhas, bore a name famous in Portugal, and had no difficulty in persuading the various captains of fortresses to swear fealty to the Spanish king.
The chief who ruled at Aden was practically independent, but owed some fealty to the Sultans of Egypt.
The fearful herald of yon famous crew Durst not your message to his masters tell, Till Fealty with contumelious words (Yet was the Spaniard brave and hot in terms) Enforced him for their answer resolute.
The fealty of vassal to suzerain is well, but so fair a deed as this of thine is the height of knightly valor.
But that you should forfeit your vows of fealty and rebelliously conspire against this your home-land of Normandy I can never forgive.
I will be true to my fealty vows hap what may, and though it cometh hard to your stout Norman heart to give up without a blow what you are so loyal to defend, suffer me, as your suzerain, to give up this my fortress to my overlord.
I have done King Henry's will, and been faithful to my fealty vows, but this passeth even my bent.
There is a fealty here, that can survive even the persecutions of the custom-houses!
Do you acknowledge fealty to this ensign--are you an Englishman?
This meeting of two rude mariners does a slight to your beauty, and little credit to the fealty due the sex.
She remembered how her husband had broken his sword and renounced fealty to the perjured King.
They had listened to him, accepted his advice and his money and renewed their fealty under the new order of things, vowing that whatever happened elsewhere in Russia, blood and agony and starvation should not visit Zukovo.
He offered these few faithful servitors his hand and they kissed his fingers--a last act of fealty and devotion and in a moment they stood listening to the diminishing hoof-beats of Vera as the young master went out of their lives.
The old man watched him for a moment, all thefealty of his many years of service in his gaze and attitude.
If you lose heart now, why, go and swear fealtyto him!
Thus well and wisely have ye won your kingdom and the fealty of these brave men.
They tempted him every hour and every day, telling him what earthly power, what riches and what great dominions would be his, if he would but swear fealty to the chief witch, Domna, and fight for her against King Arthur and his proud knights.
With shame and grief in his heart, he could only vow her there the greater fealty because of the change he found in her.
So reasoned the Spanish autocrat; and fealty to religious convictions on his subjects' part seemed to him nothing but settled obstinacy, to be burned out with martyrs' fires or cut out with swords swung by Alva's cruel hands.
Their labors and sufferings and voyagings, their fealty to what they thought to be the cause of God, makes us proud of them, as if they were our own fellow-citizens.
And through it all there beamed like a star, steadfast and unobscured in tempest, the loyal heart, the uncountable soul which, in whatsoever error, knows love and fealty as its only guides.
He drooped slowly down into his study, and sat there in the dark and cold for hours, swearingfealty to contradictory deities of passion and of friendship.
